Get Ready for Sustains Halloween Dog Parade

At Common Ground - 91 Estuary Rd South Brighton.

Dress your pooch in their spookiest or most adorable costume for a chance to win some awesome prizes. Come along, watch the parade and enjoy a coffee from Kraken Coffee cart.
Everyone welcome.

Thankyou to Kraken Coffee and Dune cafe for providing prizes.

Schedule:
10:30 AM: Meet at Common Ground
11:00 AM: Halloween Dog Parade begins
11:45 AM: Prizes awarded for the best costumes

Save the date and see you there.

In case of bad weather we will be doing the parade on Saturday 2nd November, same time and same place. See our event page for updates closer to the time.

Anglican Parish of East Christchurch are holding thier Annual Fair on Saturday the 2nd of November from 10.00am - 2.00pm in the St Faith's Church Grounds, Hawke Street, New Brighton.

This will be a fun day for all the family.

Activities include Tombola, Hook a Duck, Music, and Sausage sizzle. Stalls will have Books/Puzzles, Bric a Brac, Cakes, White Elephant, Toys, Plants.

Refreshments in the new Cath Pickering Lounge and the Church building will be open for viewing.

Please bring cash as there will be no eftpos available.

Health Matters at Eastgate shopping centre, in the space next to UniChem.

Stop by for free health checks, including blood pressure monitoring, cervical and breast screening. Also learn about bowel screening and support for smoking cessation. There will also be free facepainting, spot prizes, food and donations.

Brought to you by The Loft and Southern Cancer Society

Join us for round #2 of New Brighton Soup - a fun, tasty and purposeful community event!

Your $10 entry (at the door, cash only!) gets you a delicious bowl of soup and one vote for the best pitch on the night. We'll hear from the past winners and then 3-5 people pitching great new projects for New Brighton and then the hard part... placing your votes! All proceeds go to the winning idea on the night to help make it happen.

BYO bowl and spoon.

If you have a project or idea you'd like to pitch, get in touch via messenger or email driftwoodcouncil@gmail.com

Venue to be confirmed. check out the Driftwood Council of Brighton Facebook page for more info.

Offical launch of the Pasifika Garden project at Linwood Community Gardens.

Come and get all the seedlings and plants you will need for your spring garden at the annual Linwood Communiy Garden Plant Sale.

332 Linwood Avenue

CASH ONLY

Community Event celebrating all things Woolston

Stalls, games, food trucks, rides, entertainment and more!

12pm - 3pm at Woolston Park.

Limited street parking available, so wander down or catch the no. 3 bus which stops right outside the park.

Everything Dutch - fresh and imported food van hagelslag tot haring, books, activities, games, gezelligheid, language, immigration, future events, and windmills.

10am - 12:30pm at the Netherlands Society Cultural Centre, 637 Marshland Road, Ouruhia.

For everyone – you don't have to be Dutch – who wants to try Dutch food, loves Dutch food, is curious about the Netherlands, wants to connect with Dutch people and practice your Dutch or find out why they are how they are.

Come on down and let’s celebrate all that’s Dutch.

Haring, erwten soup, famous 'LekkerDutch' poffertjes, oliebollen, Ogees Coffee Car, fresh homemade appeltaart met slagroom, cheese and groceries from Stanmore BinIn, rookworst, games, free books, Dutch events and memberships and passport information.

After the market, we offer Dutch lessons in a small group, any level and entry is koha.

We are delighted to welcome new members to our community, and you can join as an individual or a family. Just ask any member for more information.

We look forward to welcoming you at the next market, tot gauw.

Click here, for all the details and links.

The Driftwood Council of Brighton is a group of passionate do-ers. We love the place we live and want to celebrate it, share it and make it even better!

We are an OPEN group and as such have OPEN catch-ups.

These are pretty informal. They're about connecting, hearing how each others projects are going and celebrating successes.

You're welcome to come along to these catch-ups - either as a one-off to meet the crew and hear about what we're doing or as a taster, to see if you'd like to join us.

The location of the meetings changes (though it's always in New Brighton) so send us a PM or email (driftwoodcouncil@gmail.com) and we'll give you the details of where to find us!

When: Saturday 23 Nov

Where: St Chads, Crn Buckleys Road & Carnarvon Street

Time: 10am - 2pm

Come along and join in a great community day!

Assorted craft stalls, White Elephant, Clothes, Books, Baking, Sausage Sizzle, refreshments and entertainment.

Bouncy castle for the tamariki.

For more info contact Julie on 027 451 8796

Smith Street Community Farm are holding a fundraiser - and what better way to raise funds than redistribute garden tools out to the community?

We would greatly appreciate donations of garden tools - drop off to 180 Smith Street Monday - Saturday

Head to thier Facebook Event Page for more details.

The annual AFFIRM festival celebrates the local community through amazing stage performances and a huge range of family friendly activities and food stalls.

This event is organised by Aranui Community Trust.

New Brighton Project presents.....New Brighton Seaside Christmas Parade

Meet Santa on the Beach and watch a fun community parade. Shop around our Seaside Market for your Christmas gifts while some great entertainment happens and Santa meets the kids.

We have a huge array of arts, crafts, gift-ware and delicious food, a bouncy castle for the littlies and free face painting

10am- Market opens
10.15am- Meet Santa as he arrives on New Brighton Beach
10.30am-Parade begins, corner of Marine Parade and Hawke Street
11.30 aprox- Market entertainment Begins after the Parade
11:30 - 1:30- Meet Santa in his grotto

Forums are held on the 1^st Monday of the school term.

They aimed bring together the multiple agencies, organisations, and community groups of Greater Linwood to connect, enabling better partnerships.

10.30am cuppa

11.00am meeting starts

12.00pm meeting ends

The last forum of the year will be held at St Chads, 1 Carnavon Street.